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I
seem to look quite happy in this picture, wonder if that's something to do
with Transrail beast 37154 which I've just scooped into Bristol Temple
Meads! |
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Denzil
and Kev Tipple celebrating the fixing of M62.256 on a train from Hatvan to
Somosköújfalu. The gripperess was withered by the amount of empty beer
bottles lined up on the luggage rack! |
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Seminar! Once the M62 had ran
round at the Hungarian/Slovakian border shack a seminar had to be taken. From
left to right: Kev Tipple, Denzil Morgan, myself and Neil Aitken.
Phot taken by Ferenc Joo.
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Richard Lea with 37408 at
Holyhead in the sunshine.
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And me on the gen phone -
telling someone about 43092's next working?!
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A very dubious looking
character stands
at Wolverhampton with 87029 - it's Steve Morris!
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Oh dear, this stewarding lark
obviously proved too much for a certain Mr. Daff!
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A right dubious crowd here.
Location: Szombathely Date: 28th October 2001
People: Phil Marsland, Sutty, Richard Lea and Wez.
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Sutty seminaring a phot of
Wez's plane? :-) (photo
by Richard Lea)
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Here I am with 47705 at Portsmouth Harbour. I forget the occasion! Back row is
Blackwater, VXC Saltley driver Norman Webb and myself. Front row is an unknown
crank and Steve Kibble. |
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Seminar
photo taken on the PFT "Adieu aux 59" tour on Saturday 11th May
2002 during a photo stop at Montzen Yard, the Belgians were horrified!
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PFT's
endless photo stops obviously proved too much for Keith Hookham! |
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I
think Sutty was slightly pleased at scoring 169! Photo taken at Cork on
Monday 15th April 2002. |
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Too
much bellowing gets your head stuck! Bristol bellows out of the Cravens
stock on the ITG tour at Belfast Great Victoria Street. |
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Seminaring
the most hellfire traction sampled during our 2002 Greek bash. A-223 at
Stylida, left to right: Phil Marsland (Blackwater), John Chapman (Chappy),
myself, Keith Hookham and Sutty. Photo taken by the guard!!! |
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The
Greek heat proved too much for one soft Yorkshireman, Chappy dosses out! |
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Blackwater
fondles his....err....jammy dodger biscuits? (photo
by Ferenc Joó) |
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On
holiday in Tunisia, Richard Lea bellows from a "camel"... |
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...and
enjoys the open-door thrash from ALCO DK93!!! |
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Gary
and Denzil relax during one of PFT's many photostops (on the Adieu aux
Type 80 railtour) |
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Chappy and Blackwater in front of
751.212 at Summerau on the Austrian/Czech border... |
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...and myself bellowing at the
same! |
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Richard receives a text message
about his hat, whilst sat on a bench at Varna station... |
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...and now has an "07" on his
traction card... |
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...whereas I'm content with just
bellowing at the things! |
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Poor old Chappy has to remind
himself what a Swiss platform is called. |
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Chappy uses the quality waiting
room at one of the shacks on the Tabor-Bechnye line. |
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Duncan Jennings enjoys a welcome
warm drink in the "WARS" buffet car on EC131. |
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Least said about this phot the
better me thinks! |
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Iain Sturch and Gary Thornton
walk up platform 16 at Bruxelles Midi, although Gary clearly thinks it's
platform 1! |
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Keith Hookham "enjoys" the M2
stock on the PFT railtour. |
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Richard Mallett and Dale Williams
with 742.076 at some shack on the Czech/Slovak border. |
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And with beers at Ustí nad Orlicí. |
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Czech bellowing! |
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Czech Railways cater for the beer
drinker... |
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whereas the Austrians have
bellowing statues! |
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Who is this dubious character? |
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Enjoying the "thrash" from a
Hercules? Surely not! |
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What to do when your 'vice unit'
has 40 minutes at a shack in the middle of nowhere. |
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Vracov station...or is it Vracov
garden centre?! |
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Seminar in Wien, but no train
involved for once! |
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Some seminars from Bulgaria:
1. Richard Lea bellows from the cab of narrow gauge 75.008 at Septemvri |
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2. Richard poses with the friendly
BDZ traincrew who worked our train from Momchilgrad to Dimitrovgrad. The
ticket examiner, Maria, even bought us coffee at the passing shack!! |
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3. Silistra station complete with
hellfire map on the wall. |
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4. Richard and I bellow on the
passenger deck of the Danube ferry. |
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5. And seminar 07.067 at Trojan. |
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Bag station on the Budapest-Hatvan
line just had to be seminared! |
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As did the rateable painting on
the wall of the station bar at Kisterenye. |
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Sutty and I
bellow in front of Nohab 006 at Pritina
in Kosovo, 22nd October 2006. |
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Richard
'cabs' 44.001 at Sofia. |
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Narrow gauge
seminar. Peter Sharp, Dale Williams and myself at Balatonfenyves in Hungary. |
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Gareth Jones
bellows from the veranda of the open coaches on the Nagycenk narrow gauge
railway in Hungary. |
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Gareth and
Peter 'cab' V43.335 which arrived at Nagycenk light engine as we were
waiting to board a train in the opposite direction. |
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Oh dear, the
trainspotting notebook is out... |
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Peter clearly
can't keep up with the pace. |
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Richard and
Dale salute the dearly departed. A wall mural depicting 103.115 still there
today in the subway of Bremerhaven Hbf. |
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Not strictly
"On The Bash" but a seminar photo involving foreign beers none the less.
This is the Cardinal's Hat in Worcester (where they sell Hainfelder beers). |
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Dale manages
somehow to doss out on the "tip-up" seats! |
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Sutty,
Richard, myself and Dale show our appreciation of M62.320 at Ózd. |
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Aha, so
that's where Sutty got the destination sign from! |
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Another
demonstration of appreciation. This time for the HBH sörhaz (brewpub) at
Kazincbarcika. |
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The poster
behind Dale says it all really... |
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Myself and Mr Lea seminar a rateable RENFE 333 at Madrid Chamartin |
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Sutty
stares into the trees at some shack in Poland - just what was making that
noise?! |
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Keith does a full body bellow out of the dodgy PKP double deckers. |
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Phil shows exactly what he thinks of the Polish station facilities! |
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Blackwater and Sutty bellow on the Nyíregyhaza narrow gauge. |
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"Any M41's about mate?" |
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Late in the day...the heat and beer takes effect! |
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But the next day some people can't get enough of the stuff! |
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Messrs Sutton and Marsland enjoy a patriotic meal! |
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Trabbi power - dreadful! |
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Karl Sherman demonstrates exactly how he feels on a tour I've planned! |
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Mercia Charters on tour! Sutty, Denzil & Daffy seminar the famous Bier
Tempel shop in Brussels. |
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Richard Lea bellows as M62.146 is wound up! |
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Seminar at Bistrita Bargalaui in Romania. Richard Lea, Andy Mellors, Andy
Sutton and myself enjoying the "delightful" Romanian trains, |
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103
out of Zell am See Sir? Although I clawed it back off him Rich is clearly
happy to have such a beast on the front of the train. This is Kitzbuhl
between Worgl and Zell am See. |
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The
obligatory cranky photo! Yes, like many before me I went to Hel (the end of
a branch line which runs along a peninsula from Gdynia, Poland). July 2008. |
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This
is a screenshot taken from the webcam of the Hotel Grischuna in Filisur,
Switzerland. If you look closely you can see myself and Rich bellowing from
the RhB train arriving there! |
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It's
not every day an 'NB' Goggle works in Czecho. Myself and Neil Reynolds
dropped lucky early in 2008 and had the obligatory seminar shot at Usti nad
Labem hl.n |
